The state’s unemployment rate was +1.2 percentage points higher than the national unemployment rate reported for October. The national unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in October, unchanged from the ...
Illinois voters approved a nonbinding proposal to add an extra 3% levy on annual incomes of more than $1 million, which could fuel a new effort to raise taxes on the state’s highest earners.
Democrats will maintain their historic supermajorities in the Illinois General Assembly after Tuesday’s election, but legislative Republicans tried to take a positive view of the outcome by ...